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Four months she has waited, since Aug. 6, the day she was ambushed by her estranged husband Dennis J. "D.J." Mathis. He chased her into her Fort Thomas workplace and shot her five times. Then, as she played dead letting an elevator door bang against her head, Mathis turned the gun around and shot himself to death.

"I'm so excited to come home," Waters said before she arrived in Florence on Thursday. She has been living at Shepherd Center in Atlanta, a ...